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Vesuvius in Eruption
1817
J. M. W. Turner
Description by Dr. Ralph Harrington on Turner’s techniques:

The dazzling brightness of the heart of the eruption is  created by Turner scraping away layers of paint to the white canvas  beneath: the same technique is used to create the jagged lightning that  flickers through the eruption cloud. Elsewhere, thickly applied repeated  watercolour and gum washes give the picture a depth and intensity of a  kind more usually associated with oils.

artandopinion:

Vesuvius in Eruption

1817

J. M. W. Turner

Description by Dr. Ralph Harrington on Turner’s techniques:

The dazzling brightness of the heart of the eruption is created by Turner scraping away layers of paint to the white canvas beneath: the same technique is used to create the jagged lightning that flickers through the eruption cloud. Elsewhere, thickly applied repeated watercolour and gum washes give the picture a depth and intensity of a kind more usually associated with oils.

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